Soon after Gigi's announcement, her Instagram account was flooded with the snake emoji and comments like "don't come", "Gigi is not welcome in China" and "she thinks she's too cool to apologise".

A fan shared a screengrab of a private message from Gigi in which she explains that the video was taken out of context.

She wrote:

“The photo that was taken from the video was taken out of context and attached to a headline to make it something that it definitely wasn’t,”

“It saddens me that people were hurt because someone else created a story line of what happened there.. and that it will somewhat stick around because it’s on the internet but all I can do to prove myself is to show people who I am.

"I spent time in China right before and had a great time, and I show & have nothing but appreciation and respect to my Asian fans! I hope people can judge me from their own experience of me and realize that others can twist anything on social media to make a scenario where there really wasn’t one.”

Gigi Hadid's personal letter explaining her previous discrimination against asians was because she was coming to China for a show pic.twitter.com/xIuh3vKVQT